HFCS: effika’s blog

A cache of fossils in Australia holds strange animals.

From the article:

Prof Archer said the flesh-eating kangaroos did not look anything like their modern day cousins.

“They were galloping kangaroos, they didn’t hop,” he said.

“They were also far more muscly than the kangaroos we know, with sharp sabre-like incisors and powerful forelimbs to help rip and tear their prey.

“This is pre-Skippy. You never would have thought of being afraid of a kangaroo, but this is a different period. These kangaroos would not only attack, but they would eat what they attacked.”

Another of the mysterious flesh-eating creatures is the “demon duck”, thought to be the biggest bird found anywhere in the world.

It stood three metres high, had a giant beak and a body mass of 400kg.